Quotes About Literature

It is no less difficult to write a sentence in a recipe than sentences in Moby Dick. So you might as well write Moby Dick.

I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all I want to, and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake.

The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, & it smells good. Writing is mere writing, literature is mere. It appeals only to the subtlest senses—the imagination's vision, & the imagination's hearing—& the moral sense, & the intellect. This writing that you do, that so thrills you, that so rocks & exhilarates you, as if you were dancing next to the band, is barely audible to anyone else.

Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature? Someone would have written something. She must not have recognized it. Time to read everything again.

The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, and it smells good. Writing is mere writing, literature is mere.

Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, It is the trade entering his body. The art must enter the body, too.

Why, why in the blue-green world write this sort of thing? Funny written culture, I guess; we pass things on.

Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading—that is a good life.

Nice concept. But is it a trilogy or a tweet? I can't tell any more.

It's just . . . it feels like someone's going to ask me for ID. Like, writer ID." The

We writers always get our revenge on paper

Your book is smart and beautiful. I want to have its sequels.

You should make sure that the quotable lines of dialogue in your book never exceed a hundred and forty characters!" seemed

that's where the money is in publishing—people who don't read.

she wasn't so much a writer as a thief.

the modern writer's aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole.

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He read Adam Smith, Thomas Hobbes, and Niccolò Machiavelli.

Sales were lukewarm. Back home there was no freedom, but there were readers. Here there was freedom enough, but readers were missing.

Looking around, do you see ruins? That was to be expected. He who lives in the world of words does not get along with things.

Less than 3% of newly published authors make enough in royalties and advances to be happy to live on.)

India has the deepest philosophy still expressed in a vibrant religion, a huge body of literature, amazing art, dance, music, sculpture, architecture, delicious cuisine and yet Indians are in denial mode and wake up only when foreigners treasure India,' wrote Wirth. 'They don't seem to know the value and, therefore, don't take pride in their tradition, unlike Westerners who take a lot of pride in theirs, even if there is little to be proud of.

the Bengali intellectual and author of the bestselling Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (1951), with its cringe-worthy dedication to the British empire in India: To

He [F. Scott Fitzgerald] had learned to theorize, to think, although he was always less interested in the dissection of his reading than in the enjoyment he received. (About F. Scott Fitzgerald)